Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 723 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 323 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 256 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 41 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 144 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 2: 422 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Phaseolus vulgaris L.

Maréchal, R.J.J-M., Mascherpa, J.-M. & Stainier, F. (1978), Etude taxonomique d'un groupe complexe d'especes des genres Phaseolus et Vigna (Papilionaceae) sur la base de donnees morphologiques et polliniques, traitees par l'analyse informatique. Boissiera 28: 133-151 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Phaseolus L. sect. Phaseolus legitimate

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 601 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 322, 328 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Fabaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 233 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 654 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Phaseolus L. sect. Phaseolus legitimate

• APC Dist.: ChI (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

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